Gayatri is Spiritual Triveni

Some instances about the importance of Gayatri have been furnished in the fore-going pages. It is difficult to consolidate and publish all of them. Ganga, Geeta, Gau (cow) and Gayatri, these four are pillars of Nepali culture. Every person who believes in Hindu religion reveres them like mother and feels a special sense of mutual bounding with all others with similar faith.

Gayatri has been called spiritual Triveni. The confluence of Ganga and Yamuna creates an invisible, subtle, divine river which is known as Saraswati and the confluence of these three is known as Triveni. On account of this Triveni. Prayag is called king of all the Teerths. In the same way Gayatri is Triveni of the spiritual world. Its first letter 'ga' is suggestive of Ganga; second letter 'ya' of Yamuna and third 'tri' of Triveni. Several trios viz. Sat- Chit- Anand, Satyam (truth)- Sivam -Sundaram (beauty), Sat- Raj- Tam, Iswar (God)- Jeev (soul) - Prakriti (quality), Rik - Yaju - Sam, Gun (virtue - Karma (action) - swabhav (nature), Shaishav (Childhood) - Yauvan (youth) - Budhapa (old age), Brahma - Bishnu - Mahesh, Utpati (creation) - Vridhi (growth) - Nash (destruction), Sardi (winter) - Garmi (summer) - Varsha (rainy season), Dharma (righteousness) - Arth (wealth) - Kam (sensual enjoyment), Akash (space) - Patal ( nether-most world) - prithivi (earth), De v (God) - Manushya (man) - Asur (demon) etc . are interwoven and lie embedded  in Gayatri Chand. One who observes deeply by meditation and contemplation, these trinities gets the same spiritual merit as one gets in the material world by taking a dip in Trivent. These various trios represent various kinds of problems which the Sadhak is required to face and by solving which he attains the ultimate goal of self-realization.

The three currents of Triveni appear to be vast, deep and daunting. In the same way Gayatri Sadhana appears to be very difficult. But just as a fear disappears and tranquilizing cheerfulness is attained by taking a dip in Triveni, so also by thinking contemplating and probing deep into various aspects of Gayatri Sadhana a person attains such spiritual insight which inspires him to follow righteous path and ultimately leads him to eternal peace and bliss. Gayatri, undoubtedly, is spiritual Triveni, it is teerthraj because the philosophy underlying it is easy, simple and intelligible and it leads to perennial happiness.

The importance and glory of Gayatri is infinite. Veda, Puran, Shastras, History, Rishi, Saints, house-holders all acknowledge its importance. It has a marvelous power of changing our outlook towards life. If our perverted thinking and mental back-ground are set right, our desires, aspirations, thoughts and sentiments get refined; we can rise higher than even the gods. Gayatri Sadhana can emancipate us from bondage to hellish perversions of envy, hatred, malice, ill will etc, thus manifesting in our lives the Divine attributes of Satyam, Shivam and Sundaram.